Shooting apparatus



April 7, 1925. 1,532,669

E. A. BARTEZKI suoowme APPARATQS Fil e d April 26, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1pril 7, 1925.

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STATES FFICE.

PA'EQEN SHOOTING APPARATUS.

Application filedApril 26, 1924. Serial No. 709,114.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, EMIL A. BARTEZKI, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Shooting Apparatus, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shooting apparatus, and pertains morespecifically to a means for testing the skill of the operator inshooting discs of metal or other suitable material, and comprises ahousing or support containing a target, and having associated therewitha suitable gun adapted to be manipulated for sighting and for shootingthe discs toward the target.

The aforesaid means are believed to be not only combinately novel, butcertain of the devices goingto make up such means are new in lesscombinations than the whole, and some capable of individual use as willmore clearly hereinafter appear. Various objects and advantages will beapparent as the description proceeds.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, inwhich {like numbers of reference denotes like parts wherever they occur,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the com plete apparatus;

Figure 2 is avertical longitudinal sectional view through the gun andadjacent parts of the housing, taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 5;

Figure 3 1s a similar view of the gun,

but with the handle broken away and show:

ing the gun mechanism as'it appears about to discharge a disc;

Figure 1 is asectional view of the irregular-line 41 of Figure 2, butwith the gun horizontal;

Figure 5 is a horizontal sectional view on the irregular line 55 ofFigure 2;

Figure 6 is a transverse sectional view on the irregular line 6-6 ofFigure 2;

Figure 7 is a fragmentary view in section on the line 77 of Figure 2;

V Figure 8 is an enlargement fragmentary horizontal sectional view of amodification, taken on the line 88 of Figure 9; and

Figure 9 is an enlargement fragmentary vertical sectional view of thesame on the line 9-9 of Figure 8.

A housing 1 has its floor 2 and rear wall 3 constructed preferably ofwood or other substantial material. The lower portions of when the sidewalls 41 and 5 and the front wall 6 are likewise preferably constructedof the same material, while the upper portions of these walls and thetop 7 of the easel are constructed of glass or other suitabletransparent material, preferably formed of plates 7, 8, 9, and 10cemented or otherwise suitably fastened together, and secured in grooves11 formed in the wooden portions of the structure 1.

V An aperture 12 is formed in the front wall 6just beneath glass plate10,'the said aperture being of such size that a barrel 13 of a gunl maybe loosely inserted therein so that the said gun may be shifted topermit of sighting the same into alinement with a target 15 on theinside of the rear wall 3. The aperture or opening 12 is terminated atits top by the bottom edge 16 of the glass plate 10, the wooden portionsabove the top of the aperture being removed to provide an unobstructedview through the glass for the purpose of sighting along the sights 17and 18 located along the top of the gun barrel 13 inside and outside ofthe housing 1, respectively. The slot or elongation 19 of the upper endof the aperture 12, thus formed by removing the wooden portions,preferably converges to a constricted mouth at the top edge 20 of thewooden front wall 6, as best shown in Figure 1. v

Projections 21 and 22, separated by an intervening slot or notch 23,depend from the underside of the barrel 13. A plate 24, se-

cured by screws 25 to the outside of the front wall 6, reinforces thewooden marginal edges 26 of the aperture 12, the said plate beingsubstantially of horse-shoe shape and having its inner marginal edge 27in registration with the marginal edges 26. The lower portion of plate24: passes through notch 23, thereby holding the gun' 1 1 withinpredetermined limits and preventing its withdrawalfrom the aperture 12unless the plate 24; is first removed by unscrewing the screws 25. Wall6 is recessed at 28'to allow room for projection 22.

The gun is preferably formed of suitable cast metal, being cast in twosections 29 and 30, meeting in the central longitudinal vertical planethrough the gun, and joined together by screws 31. Aprojectile-directing passage 32 is formed in the barrel 13, pref erablyin section 30, the said passage having a cross-section similar in shapeand very slightly larger than the greatest diameter of a disc or; slugof metal or a coin 33.; shown in dotted lines in Figures 2, 3, and 9. Inuse, the gun is inclined slightly, so that its forward end is higherthan its near or handle end, whereby the disc-shaped projectile 33 ispermitted to run down the inclined passage until it rests against avshoulder or seat 34, formed by constricting the passage at its innerend.

A short distance ahead of the shoulder 34 is aplate 35, fitting in arecess in section or casting. 2,9, and secured thereto by screws 36, theouter face of said plate being in alinement with the parting plane ofthe two sections, 29 and 30. The plate covers a groove 37,. extendinglongitudinally through section 29,. and in which reciprocates rod 38,having integral therewith at its rear end a plate 39, which fits intoarecess L0 in section 29,. The outer face of plate39 is preferably inalinement, with the outer face of plate 35, and has secured thereto, atits forward end a projection 4,1, extending laterally into the passage32;. The said plate 39 with its projection ll constitutes a. hammer forimpel ling the. projectile, 3 3, and plate 35 constitutes a stop forlimiting the forward movement of plate or hammer 39. The forward end 42,of the rod 38 is hook-shaped for the attachment thereto of one end of atension spring 413, the other end of which is secured to the section 29near its forward end by a screw 44, the said screw and spring beingccntained within a cavity 45 in section 29. The cavities or recesses 37;and a5 are of less height han the passage 32, the shoulders 46, iningformed thereby, serving to guide the pr jectil An opening 47 forinserting the discs 33 into the passage 32is provided in thetop of thebarrel in juxtaposition to the plate 35, and opens into, passage 32.

Plate 39. hasa recess 43 adapted to receive one end of a lever 49,located under plate 39 in a recess 50, in section 29, andv pivoted on apin 51 fixed in section 29. The lower end of lever 49 is engaged by a vstanwheel trigger 52, pivoted on a 'pin 53, fixed to. section 29, and ina cavity 5% formed in both sections 29 and 30. The star-wheel trigger 52has a plurality of radially-extending arms. 55', in the present instancefour, the outer ends of which are preferably rounded onthejr forwardportions 56, and terminate abruptly on their rear to, substantiallyright angle corner edges. 57. A spring blade 58, fixed in section '29,projects forward into cavity 54L so as to intercept the armsduringrotation. of wheel-trigger 5'2, acting as a pawl to. prevent wheel52 from rotating backwards, andmamtaining it in proper initialposition,as shown in Figure .2. a

' The mod ler using. his. appara u i now be briefly, e cribe Thegun is nrmally inclined as shown in Figures 1, 2, and

3, being held so because of the preponderance of the weight of thatportion of the gun outside of the case 1. A disc 33 is inserted into theslot 47, and assumes the position indicated by the dotted line in Figure2.

The gun is next sighted toward the target, and the downwardly extendingarm. 55 is pulled toward the handle of the gun in a typical triggermanipulating fashion, rotating the trigger wheel 52 in a clockwise orforward direction, When the trigger wheel 52 has been rotated throughalmost a quarter of a revolution, the parts are in the positionindicated in Figure 3, the hammer 39 being retracted to its rearposition, and the projectile 33 having rolled down the inclined passage32 until it has become seated against the shoulder 34, whereby it isheld out of contact. with hammer project-ion H. When the wheel 52 hasbeen turned through its full quarter of a revolution, that one of thearms 55 which has been in engagement with the lever 49 will have passedabruptly out of such engagement by reason of the abrupt corner edge 57,whereby lever 49 andhammer 39 are permitted, to re-.assume their initialpositions under the influence of the spring 43. Hammer 39 has acquiredconsiderable speed in its forward stroke when projection l1 impact-sagainst projectile 33, so that the latter is discharged with suflicientforce through the passage 32. Blade spring or pawl 58 bends, as, shownin dotted lines in Figures 2 and 3, to clear arms 55 during the forwardrotation of wheel 52, but prevents undue backward movement of thelatter.

Figures 8 and. 9 show a modification in which a resilient bufier 59 isused in lieu of the rigid projection 41 of hammer 39 for impacting theprojectile 33. Buffer 59 is formed on the end of rod 60, which isadapted to reciprocate through lugs 61 and 62, projecting laterally fromhammer 39. A compression coil spring 63 surrounds rod 60, beinginterposed between rear lug 61 and a pin 6% fixed in rod 60, the forwardmovement of buffer 59 under the. impulsion of spring 63. being limitedby the contact of pin 64 with lug 62. In this modification the fullforce is not dissipated so readily in discharging the projectile as inthe rigid projection v type, and a stronger action is, secured therebybecause the spring 63 continues to act for a time after buffer 59 hasengaged projectile 33. 1

Having thus described this invention, I hereby reserve the benefit ofall changes in form, arrangement, order, or use of parts, as it isevident that many minor changes may be made therein without departingfrom the spirit of this invention or the scope of the following claims Iclaim 1- In a g n, the comb nation of pr j ti'le-impelling hammer,spring means tending to advance the hammer, a lever in operativerelation with the said hammer, a starshaped trigger for operating thesaid lever, and a resilient element for preventing operation of saidtrigger in the wrong direction after having been actuated for operatingthe said lever.

2. In a gun, the combination of a projectile-impelling hammer, springmeans tending to advance the hammer, a lever in operative relation withthe said hammer, a starshaped trigger wheel adapted for operating thesaid lever by successive forward movements, and means for preventingundue re-' verse movement of said trigger wheel.

3.- In a gun, the combination of a hammer; a projectile-impacting butlerresiliently impelled thereby, spring means tending to move the hammerforward, a stop for limiting the said forward movement, a starshapedtrigger for retracting the said hammer, means for preventing reversedmovement of said trigger, and subsequently abruptly releasing it, andmeans for seating the projectile so that it may be impacted at anintermediate point of the stroke of the hammer.

L. In a gun, the combination of a hammer, a projectile-impacting bufferresiliently impelled thereby, spring means tending to move the hammerforward, a star-shaped trigger for retracting the said hammer andsubsequently abruptly releasing it, and means for seating the projectileso that it may be impacted at an intermediate point of the stroke of thehammer.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afl ix my signature.

EMIL A. BARTEZKI.

